Journal Resume 11

USE OF MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING: A STUDY

Simhachalam Thamarana 

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This study aimed to see the students’ attitude of using multimedia technologies in english language learning. The method of getting data is by using questionaire. The author start the study by giving a questionaire to know the students’ attitudes towards the use of multimedia technologies. After that the author give another questionaire about technologies. The technologies asked in this study are e-books, mp3 players, animations, and video players.

The result shows the students agree with the use of multimedia technologies. The result showed almost of students involved in this study said that they agree with it. In this case, the author also said it can motivate the student in learning english.

Journal Resume 10

NATURE, IMPORTANCE AND PRACTICE OF LISTENING SKILL

Dr. Henry Erhamwenmwonyi Asemota

Professor, Department of English, School of Languages, College of Education  Benin City, Nigeria. 

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This study told us in order to be a good listener, therefore, we should virtually absorbs all the speaker’s meaning by being sensitive to tone of voice, facial expression, and bodily action as well as to the words themselves. Sincerity, depth of conviction, confidence, true understanding, and many implications may well be revealed, regardless of the words used. We also hope to gain information from listening to a speaker. Then, are we able to evaluate the speaker’s ability. We are also able to consider the speaker’s method to help us determine what elements we should adopt and what elements we should avoid.

The author suggest teachers should use a variety of techniques to help students learn good listening skills and acquire grammar and vocabulary needed at their level. Developing adequate listening skills is an important tool for language acquisition, and language teachers should utilize this to guide their students in attaining language proficiency.

Journal Resume 9

THE IMPROVEMENT OF STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL ACHIEVEMENT

THROUGH ERROR ANALYSIS METHOD 

Wy Dirgeyasa

Universitas Negeri Medan (State University of Medan)-Indonesia 

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This research using EAM (Error Analysis Method) in improving students’ writing skill. This research is carried out at English Department, Faculty Languages and Arts, State University of Medan in the academic year of 2012/2013. The data of the research are presented by cycle consisting of three types namely (1) pre-test of students’ writing achievement, (2) post-test of students’ writing achievement in cycle I, and (3) post-test of students’ writing achievement in cycle II or the end of the research. it can help the students to improve their writing achievement significantly. it also provides the students’ to have positive and good perceptions toward the EAM for teaching and learning writing skill of English. Also, the EAM can lead the students to think critically and analytically about the subject they learn.

The author recommend that the EAM can also be used for other relevant subjects. In order to get a good and significant achievement in teaching and learning, it should be implemented gradually and systematically. 

Journal Resume 8

VIDEO CLIPS USED AS AN ASSESSMENT TOOL IN LISTENING PLACEMENT TESTS

Maryam Memarzadeh¹ and Mohammad Shariati²

 ¹Department of Foreign Languages, Islamic Azad University, Kerman Branch, Kerman, Iran ²Department of Foreign Languages, Islamic Azad University, Jiroft Branch, Jiroft, Iran

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This study held to know the effect of using videos in assessing listening skill in a placement test in Iran. The test involves 100 language learners that assigned into two groups. An experimental group  recieve oxford placement test, and a control group recieved video placement test. Each group contains 50 subjects. All the subjects were assessed by a multiplechoice test based on video activity books named ‘Four Corners and English Result’.

The findings obtained in this study led to the conclusion that most of the raters admitted that applying video clips can improve the quality of placement tests. They also believe that the video placement test was a good indicator of an accurate placement test and assessed the participants’ performances during the placement test appropriately; therefore, the institute could use video as a facilitator channel for assessing the participants’ skills.

In Indonesia, using this method –using video clips as an assessment tool– can be an interesting way in listening placement tests. Which it will attract more people to be a english learner.

Journal Resume 7

INDONESIAN EFL TEACHERS’ APPLICATION OF TPACK IN IN-SERVICE EDUCATION TEACHING PRACTICES

Bambang Yudi Cahyono, Oktafina Dewi Kurnianti and Ira Mutiaraningrum 

Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia 

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This research shows the introducing of applying TPACK for Indonesial EFL teachers in improving the quality of their EFL instructional designs and teaching practices. The teachers attended 16-session course in which they were introduced to TPACK framework and were assigned to make instructional designs based on TPACK framework. Moreover, they were asked to teach their colleagues (peer teachers) by using the TPACK oriented instructional designs. At the end of the course the teachers were given a questionnaire asking the benefit of the TPACK-oriented teaching practice course in improving the quality of their EFL instructional designs and their EFL teaching practices.

The result showed taht the EFL teachers benefited a lot from TPACK-oriented teaching practice course and they have successfully prepared instructional designs and performed teaching practices by applying TPACK framework.

This study also give a suggestion to the participants (EFL teachers) need time to do self-contextualization of TPACK framework  to their own specific setting.

Journal Resume 6

Title: THE EFFECT OF PROVERBS ON LEARNING VOCABULARY THROUGH
VISUAL ORGANIZERS
Writer: Elham Baharian/ MA TEFL

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The study findings revealed that the proverb plus picture and the proverb group outperformed the control group with a significant difference. Therefore, teaching vocabulary through proverbs has a positive effect in vocabulary mastery and retention compared to the traditional method. The immediate tasks results displayed that the proverb plus picture had the highest gain of words compared to the proverb group but there was not a significant difference between these two methods. So, using proverb plus pictures may not have a significant superiority in the short run compared to the proverb group. However, the delayed tasks revealed that the proverb plus picture had a superiority over the proverb group across time with a significant difference. Hence, employing the visual organizers is effective on vocabulary mastery and  retention across time.

Journal Resume 5

Title: THE IMPACT OF USING WORDLISTS IN THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM ON
STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY ACQUISITION
Writer: Gülçin Coşgun

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The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of using a word wall including a wordlist on vocabulary acquisition of Turkish EFL learners. To achieve this goal, the study consisting of 28 participants from classes was conducted. 

A pre-test was given before the treatment and a posttest was given after the treatment. The analysis and correlations of the obtained data clearly confirmed that using a wordlist on a word wall can be regarded as a working factor in fostering learners’ vocabulary acquisition.   However, although students in the experimental group made a greater gain than the students in the control group, there were still many words that were not learned after the treatment. This reveals that using a wordlist in the classroom as implemented in this study, may not be the ultimate solution to improve the vocabulary acquisition.